China Sunergy has started mass production of its selective emitter
cells after successfully commissioning recently arrived production
equipment, the company has said. The emitter cells yielded an average
efficiency rate of 17.5 percent during the first few days of mass
production in November, the company claimed.
“I am delighted that we have managed to develop and commercialize
these high-efficiency cells in less than a year, and am confident that
as we refocus our R&D resources we will be able to achieve similar
success with other high- efficiency cell products,” stated Dr. Jianhua
Zhao, CTO of China Sunergy. “As we continue to optimize our selective
emitter cell equipment and technology, I also believe that we should be
able to achieve average efficiency rates of 18 percent on future
commercial batches of these cells.”
The company also said it
would continue to drive further efficiency from the cells in 2008 and
will be adding an additional four production lines during the
second-half of the year.
